Plum

About this work

This is a single plum resting on a rough, textured surface. The fruit is deep red with a slightly fuzzy skin, and a small stem sticks out from the top. The background is a pale, uneven wash of color, almost like the paper itself. The painting looks simple but the artist used thin layers of wet paint to build up the plum’s color—almost like staining glass. It’s signed and dated 1903 in the corner. Try looking up watercolor, glazing to see how this technique works.